TEC Events & News October 2024
It's (technically) fall and we've got plenty of great events and new content to enjoy. Crowd favorite Mustafa Ungyer, from MicroFix, is back for our October Right to Repair workshop. This month's Privacy PIE meetup will cover the basics of car surveillance – what your car knows about you and what you can (and, truthfully, can't) do about that. We've also got two new TEC Talks episodes. In our short form episode David Koontz tells us what it's like to be front end senior software engineer. Our deep dive episode stems from the August TEC Article Club selection. Hermit Technologies co-Director Jordan Andersen sat down with TEC CTO Charles Knox to discuss founding a radically ethical software consultancy and how AI can often get overhyped, overpromised, and oversold.
October 2024 Right to Repair Workshop:
Fix Your Own Phone
Join us on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. for this free workshop where you'll learn how to fix your own phone!
This in-person workshop takes place at the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College (Washington campus), home to the only right to repair hub in Phoenix metro valley. Map and parking directions to "the lab" can be found here.
🔧 We have all the specialty tools you’ll need thanks to iFixit! That includes everything from technical screwdrivers to antistatic tables.
👨🏫 💻 Bring your own phone or use one of ours to practice on worry-free!
🌍 Save the planet! And money! Your old tech does NOT have to end up in a landfill and you don’t have to be a techie to save some money.
💡Mustafa Ungyer, the technologist owner of the MicroFix repair shop, will offer expert guidance on fixing your device. He's been teaching and fixing for well over two decades so you couldn't ask for better guidance on your Right to Repair journey.
October 2024 Privacy PIE
Driving the Surveillance Economy:
What Your Car Knows About You
Join us on Tuesday, October 22 at 6 p.m. for an eye-opening discussion on the what information your car is tracking – and revealing – about you.
This in-person talk takes place at the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College (Washington campus), home to the only right to repair hub in Phoenix metro valley. Map and parking directions to "the lab" can be found here.
You've seen headlines telling you your car is collecting data on you, but what data and how is that data being used? Who owns the data and is there a way to limit the information your vehicle gathers about you? We'll discuss all this and more.
New TEC Talks Podcast Episodes
Check out our latest podcast episodes. Catch up on back episodes and subscribe at Bookmark https://podcast.techedcollab.org/@techedcollab or subscribe on Spotify to never miss an episode!
TEC's October Blog: Another Successful TEC Trip (pun 100 percent intended)
Christina Eichelkraut
What awesome TEC facility should we visit next? Let us know on the TEC Discord!
The August 2024 Article Club Selection
To participate in this discussion, just join the async discussion on the TEC Reads channel on our Discord server.
Rhadamanthys information stealer introduces AI-driven capabilities
As will surprise literally no one, AI is being used in terrifying and creative ways by multitudes of bad actors. This month's article by Pierluigi Paganini for Security Affairs examines how a new iteration of the Rhadamanthys information stealer leverages optical character recognition (OCR) to extract cryptocurrency seed phrases.
Publication: Security Affairs
Long and Ugly Link:
https://securityaffairs.com/169253/malware/rhadamanthys-information-stealer-uses-ai.html
Date Published: October 2, 2024
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